---
title: "Automagic Kernel Cleaning under Ubuntu"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2010/05/automagic-kernel-cleaning-under-ubuntu/"
date: "2010-05-31T14:29:03Z"
tags: ["Bash","Linux","Programming","Ubuntu"]
categories: ["Instructional"]
---

Sick of having dozens of old kernels sitting under your /boot/ dir? Want a simpler boot-life? Well we’ve got the solution for you.

Just one course of [cleankernel](http://andrewbolster.info/scraps/cleankernel) once an upgrade cycle will remove all previous kernel entries from your bootloader and /boot/ dir.

Basically, it lists what kernels you currently have in your /boot/ and removes them using [apt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Packaging%20Tool) .